World: Does Offshoring Asylum and Migration Actually Work? What Australia, Spain, Tunisia, and the United States can teach Europe

Source: Open Society Foundations
Country: Australia, Spain, Tunisia, United States of America, World
As the stalemate continues over a common set of rules on asylum within the European Union, “externalizing,” “offshoring,” “outsourcing” and, most recently, “regionalizing” asylum and migration management in non–European Union countries remain on the agenda. So does offshoring actually work? This brief takes a comparative look at offshoring asylum and migration management in Australia, Spain, Tunisia, a